Böcker av David C. Thomas

In today's rapidly evolving business world continual innovation is now a must. Scholar and consultant David C. Thomas says the same forces of globalization that have created today's superheated competitive environment have also provided a potential hidden advantage: the multiculturals in your midst. Thomas cites ample research and examples showing that people who have experienced more than one culture are more creative that those with more limited experience. Multiculturals have a broader worldview. Having to integrate different cultural values forces them to develop more complex ways of thinking and makes them better able to see new patterns and connections. Their heightened empathy, the result of learning to adapt to sometimes wildly different cultures, helps them build support for their ideas and work effectively on the teams that implement them. This book makes a powerful business case for recognizing and cultivating a new dimension of diversity. Thomas looks at how different people express their multicultural identities and how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish, And he shows how even the most monocultural among us can develop the characteristics of a multicultural mind.

Using archaeological fieldwork, detailed analysis of satellite images, and Google Earth, David Thomas reassesses the Ghurids and generates a more nuanced understanding of this early Islamic polity.

Cross-Cultural Management: An Introduction offers students a hands-on approach to cross-cultural management that they can apply to a wide variety of organizational contexts.

An important feature of the review of the empirical work on cultural intelligence is that results are discussed in terms of the relationship of the four sub dimensions of the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) and also that results using the Short Form Cultural Intelligence Scale (SFCQ) and other measures of the concept are included.

This Fourth Edition has a clear focus on the interactions of people from different cultures in organizational settings, helping readers to gain an understanding of the effect of culture across a variety of contexts.

This essential text extracts key concepts in the management of people in a global context and presents them in a concise volume.

Presents ways to maximize the positive effects of cultural diversity while minimizing the negative consequences. This book includes: an explanation of how culture influences individual managers; methods to systematically describe cultural differences; and, fundamental principles that influence cross-cultural interactions.